Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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